Theres patchy light icing at 6 00 a. M. Clearing by 9 00. Then a really nice afternoon. Nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele has the latest on that. Good morning to you glenn. Good morning to you at home. Well take a live look at the western suburbs near route 100 at route 13. You can see the roads are dry. It is quiet out here. Just a few drivers out there, so route 100 looks good. Even in chester county, the route 30 bypass and 202 are all clear. No accidents to deal with. If youre waking up in delaware and traveling on 95 through wilmington checking the drive times right now. You can see prettyityy average between 295 and 495. And we continue to follow breaking news from new jersey where firefighters are battling a fouralarm fire at a historic inn. It broke out around 2 00 a. M. At the sergeantsville inn in sergeantsville. Thats just north of lambertsville. Katy zachry has been on the scene for a half hour. Katy is the fire under control yet . Reporter yeah well, firefig
Committee wants to gauge what is going on and how the quality of care is being delivered, i would ask you to spend a day Walking Around inside the local hospital talking to veterans and discussing their health care experiences, not sitting in front of a preselected panel of veterans to support sweeping jenlizations and to stoke public outrage. The fact is that the v. A. Health Care Services are excellent. Patient satisfaction Services Support that assertion. The primary complaint we hear all of the time from veterans is how long they had to wait to be seen for an initial appointment or to receive care. At its core, this is an access problem, not a quality of care problem. These are not the same thing. And to be clear, sending veterans outside of the v. A. To get private care is not the solution to this problem. It might be part of a solution, it is not the solution. Particularly for veterans who ly on it might be part of a solution. It is not the solution. Particularly for veterans to
Nd we have exposures to things but chemicals and on and on. What it means is that when at v. A. Hospitals, the average presentations are things wrong with an individual is five to seven per individual. The formula was built on a middle class p. P. O. s and h. M. O. s and they had one to three average presentations of things wrong with them. Which means that the burn rate of resources at v. A. Is much higher. Thats particularly true as old guys from vietnam age and become from re aged and uncles korea and fathers from world war ii. Presentations per individual of o. I. F. , o. E. F. Veterans is over a dozen for each individual that comes through. So the point is, we need to reprogram some money. Pass the have management accountability on this side of the hill and reprogram money and frankly go for a supplemental if that turns out that its needed. In the meantime, we would urge everybody, every hospital, something we have been urging is screened screen everybody at the hospital for the f
We have had everything talked about from dollars to construction to milestones to all sorts of stuff. Helpful. Im going to ask you, each one of you, because you represent veterans in this country that are being served by the v. A. , i think you have an understanding of what the challenges are out there. You tell me what you would do first to fix the v. A. And what you would do second. I am assuming there will be 3, 4, 5 more down the line. Is it money . Is it the resources they have the need to be allocated different . Do we need to put a focus on hiring professionals . You cannot say do all of them. We want to hold folks accountable. If you can give me your priorities of what we need to do, it could be helpful. Assessment is the first thing that needs to happen. Speakhave heard the v. A. , they have enough money. They do not have the accurate numbers. System,are gaming the how many actual visits are they going to have a year . Instead of having 85 million, will of the 150 million . Yo
There are veterans whose problems have been so acute and not address that they have ended up without homes. If other Services Come through, people do not end up on the street. Each one is a failure. It does not mean people set out to fail, but we have failed those folks coming home somehow. The vfw believes the resources the v. A. Can provide should never come at a tradeoff. The obligations to provide Holistic Services to the assistance,ployment but also health care has to remain a cornerstone. When veterans transition off of active duty, there are a litany of Transitional Resources that need to be made available to them. To deliverhe most of those. Seeould never want to tradeoffs made on how we deliver other benefits. , other t injecting will suffer. Senator moran did not talk about audits, i just one of the theesses to know that was assessment of chairman miller, from the house committee. Jackson. I am not sure how many facilities he is covering. That was his assessment of the audit